Speech Regarding TREE PLANTATION

Respected Principal,
Teachers, members of the staff and fellow students !

I am very happy to see
all of you here today for the inauguration of the local School Garden which
will be accomplished only after a tree planting ceremony. We have with us
plenty of saplings that have been donated by you. I am here to speak on ‘Tree
plantation’. You know how greatly beneficial trees are! They, in fact, sustain
our lives. Just imagine, if they had not provided us with oxygen or with food,
fuel, furniture, fruits, herbs, houses for birds, what kind of life it would
have been? Well, there wouldn’t have been life at all.

Just planting the
saplings and letting nature to take care of the rest will not help. It is our
duty as good dedicated citizens to look after these saplings and water them. Besides
this, trees cause rains which are as necessary as air. They give us a beautiful
landscape and help in the ecological balance of nature. You can imagine the
surface of the moon. Our earth would be like that without trees – lifeless,
colourless, lustreless. We are here because of them. We must therefore start
valuing them. In the past trees were planted by kings and nawabs on roads,
around palaces and in gardens. In the modern times local governments have been
planting them on roads and in parks. In the future people shall plant them
almost everywhere on vacant spaces. Our disregard for trees has borne us with
sour fruits. See the effects of deforestation and increasing urbanization.
Environmental pollution is their result. Global warming, or the Green House
effect have caused drought conditions in many parts of the world. Undoubtedly
many states in our country are reeling under scanty rainfall. If we are really
serious about the value of tree plantation due to these reasons, it becomes our
urgent duty to plant more and more trees on every available inch of land. It is
the need of the hour that something should be done to restrain the increasing
environmental degradation by planting more trees and implementing various laws
to check tree felling. If something is not done soon, the damage to our
biosphere will be difficult to repair.